Construct labeling: public trust and scientific credibility

Frontiers in Psychology

Arthur G. Bedeian¹ 

关键词: construct labeling;    wage distributions;    wage differentials;    CEO/chairman pay;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00808

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

A review of the data on which Kiatpongsan and Norton's analysis rests, however, casts doubt on their findings. Most obviously, the four ISSP survey items that formed the basis for Kiatpongsan and Norton's “estimated” and “ideal” pay ratios asked respondents what they thought a Chairman of a large national company/corporation and an unskilled factory worker should earn and not what they thought an average CEO or an average employee should earn. Although in some instances the same person may serve as both a company's chairman and CEO, the jobs are not the same. Indeed, in the United States, some 47 percent of S&P 500 companies operate with separate chairmen and CEOs (Spencer Stuart Inc, 2014, p. 23). Similarly, Kiatpongsan and Norton's use of the terms “average employee” and “unskilled factory worker” as if they are synonymous is puzzling. Discussing pay ratios in the United States, the AFL-CIO's (2013) Executive Paywatch website uses neither term, preferring the broader trade-union designation “rank-and-file worker,” a more encompassing classification than unskilled worker in a factory, as used in ISSP Items (ii) and (iv) above.

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